Destin Daniel Cretton, director of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is reportedly exiting the next big Avengers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- Destin Daniel Cretton is no longer set to direct Marvel’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
- The director was first reported to be attached to the film last summer.
- Cretton is still currently developing a sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as well as a series for Disney+ based on the Marvel hero Wonder Man.
- THR reports filming for the Wonder Man series will continue in the coming weeks now that the actor strike is over.
- A draft of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty has been written by Jeff Loveness, who also wrote Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
- The fate of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is being questioned by many, due to the ongoing legal battle of Jonathan Majors, who play the titular Kang.
- A variant of Kang, He Who Remains, first appeared in Marvel’s Loki on Disney+ before he became the antagonist of Quantumania.
- In the comics, Kang is a time-traveling conqueror with a slew of equally dangerous variants who plague heroes like the Avengers and the Fantastic Four on countless occasions.
- Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is currently slated to hit theaters on May 1, 2026 with Avengers: Secret Wars set to follow a year later.
- With Cretton’s exit, neither film currently has a director.